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Jul. 12th, 2016 02:15 pmMy Dear Employer is going to be participating in a large travel show in Denver, the GBTA. We've been there before but with recent shake-ups in upper management, it was deemed to be important to be there just to demonstrate that we are alive & kicking. And to ensure there's something to actually show, there's been a planned series of new features & upgrades to our applications over the past two months, the last of which gets released into Production on Wednesday.
Some have asked what my employer actually does, and I have typically said we're a player in business travel. That's the core of it, but it's not a very detailed explanation. From a press release which was previewed to staff today, here's the official word:
We make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers and more profitable for service providers. Using our industry-leading software solutions, employees book travel and car service and report those expenses faster and more easily than ever before. Corporations control costs more effectively. Travel management companies deliver more engaging customer experiences. Car service operators benefit from new efficiencies and widen their customer reach. We've helped thousands of forward-thinking companies modernize their systems, improve travel management and save big money.
We also have a business expense management platform, but that's not part of this particular trade show and app upgrade package: it will, however, be the corporate focus early next year, to bring it up to par with our other offerings.
We've been given the general approval for the upgrade of our data center cages in DC3, the ones for which I am employed to maintain. The plan is to acquire a third cage in the same building, fill it with newer, higher density equipment, deploy the latest operating systems & apps to it, then direct traffic from the old systems to the new. Once fully migrated, we decommission both of the old cages.
Like I said, we have general approval, but no one has officially pulled the trigger on that project yet. There's a huge pile of spending up front, and once we acquire the third cage, the clock starts ticking: we don't want to pay for three cages more than we have to so we will need to move quickly. Now that the majority of our VC funding negotiating is done and a few major deals are signed, I hope to see the signatures on the purchase orders soon.
Some have asked what my employer actually does, and I have typically said we're a player in business travel. That's the core of it, but it's not a very detailed explanation. From a press release which was previewed to staff today, here's the official word:
We make business travel less complicated for travelers, less costly for employers and more profitable for service providers. Using our industry-leading software solutions, employees book travel and car service and report those expenses faster and more easily than ever before. Corporations control costs more effectively. Travel management companies deliver more engaging customer experiences. Car service operators benefit from new efficiencies and widen their customer reach. We've helped thousands of forward-thinking companies modernize their systems, improve travel management and save big money.
We also have a business expense management platform, but that's not part of this particular trade show and app upgrade package: it will, however, be the corporate focus early next year, to bring it up to par with our other offerings.
We've been given the general approval for the upgrade of our data center cages in DC3, the ones for which I am employed to maintain. The plan is to acquire a third cage in the same building, fill it with newer, higher density equipment, deploy the latest operating systems & apps to it, then direct traffic from the old systems to the new. Once fully migrated, we decommission both of the old cages.
Like I said, we have general approval, but no one has officially pulled the trigger on that project yet. There's a huge pile of spending up front, and once we acquire the third cage, the clock starts ticking: we don't want to pay for three cages more than we have to so we will need to move quickly. Now that the majority of our VC funding negotiating is done and a few major deals are signed, I hope to see the signatures on the purchase orders soon.
